8. Brahma and Saraswati 创造之神梵天和妻子辩才女神

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Brahma’s Curse and Beheading
     A number of tales mention a quarrel between Shiva and Brahma that led to Shiva either cursing the creator god or severing his fifth head.
     One story says that after Brahma split himself into two so that the first male and female could be made, he became entranced with his sister/daughter/wife’s beauty.The two mated, and humans were born. Not wanting to let her out of his sight, he grew three other heads so that he could always spy on the modest woman.
     She eventually got fed up with his lecherous behavior and said, “How can he unite with me after engendering me from himself? For shame! I will conceal myself.” And she took off into the sky in the form of a cow. Seeing this, Brahma grew a fifth head facing upward so that he could watch her in the sky as well.
     But soon the creator god was not content to simply watch, and he pursued her across the sky in the form of a bull. From this assault, cows were created. She continued to transform into different animals, and he in turn took on the male forms of those animals and mated with her. In this way, all the various creatures of the earth were born.
     Shiva, watching these pursuits in disgust, at last loosed an arrow from his bow. The shaft pierced through Brahma’s animal head so swiftly that it fell clean off, and Brahma was reduced to only four heads once more.

资料来源：https://mythopedia.com/topics/brahma

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梵天的诅咒和斩首
许多故事都提到了湿婆和梵天之间的争吵，导致湿婆要么诅咒创世神，要么砍掉他的第五个头。
一个故事说，在梵天将自己一分为二以便可以制造第一个男性和女性之后，他被他的姐妹/女儿/妻子的美丽所吸引。两人交配，人类诞生了。他不想让她离开他的视线，他又长了三个脑袋，这样他就可以随时窥探这个谦虚的女人。
她最终厌倦了他好色的行为，说：“他把我从他身上夺走后，怎么能和我联合起来呢？为了羞耻！我会隐藏自己。她以牛的形状飞向天空。看到这一幕，梵天长出了第五个头朝上，这样他也可以在天空中看着她。
但很快造物主就不满足于单纯的看着，他以公牛的形式在天空中追逐她。从这次袭击中，产生了奶牛。她继续变成不同的动物，他反过来采取这些动物的雄性形态并与她交配。就这样，地球上所有的各种生物都诞生了。
湿婆厌恶地看着这些追求，终于从弓上放下了一支箭。轴刺穿梵天的动物头是如此之快，以至于它掉了下来，梵天再次减少到只有四个头。[img]https://cn.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=fUWnZles&id=04CA682B650302AA413513C3A326535CA84DB9A7&thid=OIP.fUWnZlesyPYZpxrqpVhe-QHaD8&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bonobology.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2019%2f07%2fUncomfortable-Love-Of-Brahma-And-Saraswati.jpg&exph=400&expw=750&q=brahma+and+saraswati&simid=608011874498325230&FORM=IRPRST&ck=40797D36073E7E4B2ABA56D1FFEB6CEA&selectedIndex=0&qpvt=brahma+and+saraswati&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0[/img]

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Brahma is the four faced god in the Hindu theology and is considered as the god of creation.
The four faces signify the four Vedas. These Vedas are Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharvana symbolizing wisdom, science, arts and superhuman capabilities respectively. All these aspects are inherent in the entire cosmos.
And Mother Saraswati is the embodiment of knowledge, arts and all forms of creative activity.
So when Brahma creates the gross universe (matter), Saraswati embellishes it, perfects it and crafts it into myriad shapes, forms and colors. Thus, she is the goddess of arts, crafts and all forms of learning and performance.

邱柏霖

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悄悄

I have to admit that I am always amazed by the Indian fairy Tales which are dramatical and miraculous.Thinks for offering the interesting stories of Brahma and Saraswati.I learned a lot from your content indeed.

北渔

The images of Brahma and Saraswati

faith

辩才天女 是印度神话中大神梵天之妻（一说是女儿），从他的左手大拇指上出生。又译娑罗室伐底。辩才天女有着除人之秽，给人财富、后代、勇气的神力。

faith

梵天，是指印度教的创造之神。梵天亦称造书天、婆罗贺摩天、净天，是印度婆罗门教的创造之神，梵文字母的创制者。与毗湿奴、湿婆并称三主神

木笔V

Indusim is much different from Chinese mythology.It always presents unbelievable characters with apparent Indian features.

ARMY

萨瓦拉斯蒂作为印度象征智慧和知识的女神，与其他渴望爱情和母性的女神不同，她冷漠自持且富有智慧，正是这种个性，让梵天对其的迷恋惹人避讳并使湿婆大怒的神话更具有可信度。梵天和萨拉斯瓦蒂的结合实际上似乎正是因为其不伦和男性强权凝视的原因，而受湿婆和印度教徒的不喜，因此，梵天和萨拉斯瓦蒂的关系没有得到所有神圣关系所期望的神圣性，梵天的追求也并没有给他在神话中赢得一个好位置——其有力表现之一在于，尽管梵天是三大主神之一，但实际上祭拜和信仰他的教徒并不如信仰另两位主神的多，梵天神庙也并不常见。
As the Indian goddess of wisdom and knowledge, Saraswati is different from other goddesses who are long for love and motherhood. She is indifferent and intelligent. It is this personality that makes Brahma's infatuation with her taboo and makes Shiva's furious myth more credible. In fact, it seems that the combination of Brahma and Saraswati is disliked by Shiva and Hindus because of its nondescript and male power gaze.Therefore, the relationship between Brahma and Saraswati didn't get the sanctity expected by all sacred relationships, and Brahma's pursuit didn't win him a good position in mythology. One of its powerful manifestations is that although Brahma is one of the three main gods, in fact, there are not as many worshippers and believers who believe in him as the other two main gods, and Brahma temples are not common.